Liberia: Liberia Land Authority, Forestry Development Authority Sign MOU for Land Formalization around Protected Areas

Oct 11, 2022 | FrontPage Africa
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The Liberia Land Authority (LLA) and the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) have executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate and define the scope of land formalization for customary lands adjoining protected areas (PAs) and Proposed Protected Areas (PPA) across Liberia. Prior to the enactment of the Land Rights Acts (LRA) in 2018, the issue of land tenure across these forest landscapes was unclarified, as ownership of forests was only granted to communities by the government through the Community Rights Law with Respect to Forests Land (CRL) in 2009.